The social criticism in george orwell'S 1984

2.3 Social Criticism 
Social criticism is a form of one's delivery through language 
communication. As a form of communication, social criticism is usually delivered 
verbally and nonverbally. Social criticism can be found in books, newspapers and 
others print media. But here, the social critic emphasized by the author is the 
social criticism contained in the literary work. In his own literary works of 
sarcasm against social criticism, usually the criticism is aimed at the rulers and 
injustices that occurred in the public sphere of poetries, songs and novels.

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The novel as a literary work that contains social criticism is usually raised 
by the author based on life experiences about events that have been experienced or 
known by the author.In Susan (2009: 17-18), describes the social criticism was 
growing and developing in the United States based on critical analysis Chaler W. 
Mills (1956). Mills conducts studies critical of American social structure. Mills 
suggested that the American social structure tends to repress the people, through 
the elites in power. This analysis belongs in the criticism of the criticism because 
sociology conducted aimed at the power structure and an oligarchy that dominate 
American ruling elite at that time. In the England's leading sociology. It is 
Anthony Giddens. He did the critical schools of using rationality in the sense of 
structuralfungsionalist (Giddens, 1995).
The beginning of the birth of academic literary criticism was marked by the 
emergence of Russian formalism early in the 20th century, literary criticism as the 
activity and the result of activity of understanding and appraisal of literary works 
based on the principles of modern science. Then Russian formalism is understood 
as an important point for the rapid development of the science and criticism of 
later academic literature, among other Prague structuralism, French structuralism, 
genetic structuralism, semiotics, and post-modern and post-structural literary 
criticism, literary "post-Marxist" literary criticism, it was create a new field of 
study known as cultural studies (Faruk, 2014: 19-20) 
Social criticism that people often encounter in a literary work of various 
novels as social criticism in government, social criticism in power, social criticism 

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in Economi, social criticism in human life. But in here, the writer only discusses a 
bit about social criticism in goverment. As Rosyada dkk (2000: 47) said that: 
Pemerintah adalah alat kelengkapan negara yang bertugas memimpin 
organisasi negara untuk mencapai tujian negara. Kritik dari masyarakat 
berfungsi sebagai kontrol terhadap pemerintah untuk dapat melaksanakan 
tugasnya dengan baik. Ketika pemerintah mampu menjalankan tugas sesuai 
dengan fungsinya maka kehidupan dalam negara ini akan berjalan kondusif. 
Oleh karena itu pemerintah harus memperbaiki sistem-sistem yang 
sepenuhnya berpihak kepada rakyat. 
 
As the social critic novel, 1984 has critical in goverment. The goverment 
critical such asFascism, Totalitarian, and Social discrimination.